Ttlt. - '..aArtitilt-O'._:(srtt:titi4tit&t. VOL. LIX. INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, LT NO. S NORTH DUKE STREET, BY GEE*. SANDERSON. MEE SUBSCRIPTION.—Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad ranee. No subscription discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. ADVERTIISEMENTIL—Advertisements. not exceeding one square, (12 lines,) will he Inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional inser tion. Those of a greater length in proportion. Joe PRINTING—Such as Eland Bills, Posters, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, &c., /cc., executed with accuracy and at the shortest notice. ANGEL MUSIC When the twilight weeps 'neath her azure veil, And the sweet flowers sigh as the day grows pale Then an Angel comes, on her silent wings, And a golden harp in her hand she brings. Soft, sweet. and low, Rich numbers flow, And I hush my breath while the Angel sings. Oh ! the love-rays fall from her dew filled eye,' Like the soft star-beams from the twilight sky ; And she fans my brow with her fragrant wings, While she gently strikes on her golden strings. Soft, sweet, and low, Rich numbers flow, And I weep fur joy when the Angel sings. Like the soft south-wind when he woos the flowers— Like the glad bird's note in his loved wreathed bow- Like the thrilling sigh of the wind-harp strings, Are the rapture tones that the Angel sings. Soft, sweet, and low, Glad breathings flow, And I dream of love while the Angel singe. Like the plaintive voice of the moaning pine— Like the wild, wild wail of the heaving brine— Like tho groans that sweep on the night-winds' D the strange, sad song that the Angel sings. Dark, deep, and low, Sad mountings flow, And]. weep o'er the lost while the Angel singe Then a lofty strain on the rich harp swells, And the sound of bliss in its music dwells; And the tide of song o'er the glowing strings Flows fresh and free from the Eden springs. Soft, sweet, and low, Rich breathings flow, And I dream of Heaven while the Angel sings For the Intelligeneer CONSUMPTION BY THE GLADE BARD. Hear that sound, what a solemn knoll, It rings on the ear like a funeral bell ; It tells of the chilling hand of death, That wastes the form, and chokes the breath; The vital chords grow feebly weak, And heotio flushes are on the cheek, Cold chills run shivering thro' the frame, And burning fevers scorch the brain; And acute pains the system wear, So violent nature scarce can bear; And feebler waxes every limb, The pulses weak, and the eight grows dim. Dews gather damply his brow upon, Foreshadowing death's approaching doom. And fevers rack his feebling brain, Which tell decay, and her shadowy train ; The future's shadows wildly loom, Dark Visions of the silent tomb; And spectral shapes of an early pall, Like evening shades on the spirit fall, And shroud the heart in hopeless gloom, And opes to the victim's sight the tomb. Dim Melancholy spreads her pall, As deeper, deeper the shadows fall Around the victim's pathway, at will, And hope grows feebler—feebler still. The present shows no light to bless, The future shadows but distress; A chaos of deep distress and woe, Is all the victim shares below. His wasting form will slowly sink, Into the grave's lone, silent brink, There to remain until that day When th' dead and and living ay. called away When the Archangel's feet do stand Upon the ocean and the land, Calling the nations to come of earth, The dead and the living, to judgment forth ; The angels will hover in the air, All singing hallelujahs fair, With hands to hands, and wings all spread, Forming an archway for the dead To pass from earth to the promised shore, Where pain and sorrow are known no more. The victim of Consumption then, Will take his flight 'mid the happy train, And work his way through the Angel band, Up to the throne of the happy land : His ransomed spirit will then be free, In that bright realm of felicity ; No more to feel death's boding throe, That loomed on his spirit here below. TUE 'IdECOMPTON QI7I3STION. Our readers are aware that the Senate Committee on Territories, to whom was referred the Message of the President ac companying the copy of the Lecompton Constitution communicated by him to that body, presented on Thursday week three reports in relation to the subject, repre senting as many different classes of views between which the Committee was divided. The report made by Senator Green, of Missouri, presents the views of the major ity of the 'Committee, of the Administra tion, and of the Democratic party gener ally ; that submitted by Senators Collamer and Wade reflects the sentiments of the Republicans ; while a third prepared by Senator Douglas represents his own indi viduality, and the anomalous ground which the Senator occupies, as -a Democrat of suspected orthodoxy, excommunicated by the leading organs of his party, yet stoutly affirming in the teeth of the President and the party, that his, not theirs, is the true democracy of the Kansas-Nebraska act and Cincinnati platform. We subjoin the more important portions of the majority report, which, after an extended historical review of the whole matter, commencing with the first acquisition of Kansas from France by the treaty of April 30th, 1803, and its subsequent erection into a Territory of the United States by act of Congress, May 30th, 1854, and closing with the adoption of the Lecompton Constitution on the 21st December, 1857, proceeds as follows : Having thus given an historical account of the matter referred for their considera tion, your committee will briefly review the whole subject, unembarrassed by details. They will look at the subject as it origi nated, as it has been for three years, and as it now is. The population of our country four years ago, was principally confined by treaty and by law to the comparatively small region lying to the east of the river Mississippi, lowa, Muisouri, Arkansas, and part of Louisiana were found on the western bank. Also, on the extreme southern bank, Texas ; and Minnesota oh the northern.— California and the settlements of the Ore gon were upon the Pacific coast. ; in the centre, New Mexico and Utah. The im mense country lying between our scanty settlements upon the "Pacific and western ! boundaries of lowa, Missouri and Arkansas, I may be said, in general terms, and with the ! above exceptions, to have been unoccupied. Guarded by the Indian non-intercourse act and by Indian treaties, and without terri torial organization, the country was ren dered, by statutory prohibitions, an inac cessible solitude, which pioneer settlers ! might not legally disturb. Further exten sions or settlement to the westward were thus arrested by law. The western border! of three or four States was the western border of the United States until we reach ed the top of tee Sierra Nevada, and looked down upon the long and narrow se!tlement upon the shores of the Pacific. The bor dei• States had become dissatisfied, and clamored for western expansion over the beautiful and fertile wilderness which, ' though extending fora continuous distance of a thousand miles, approaching within three hundred miles of the Mississippi, was abandoned by the government to the exclusive use of wild semi-civilized and vagrant Indian tribes. Unable longer to resist the demands of the West for the opening up to settlement of a country so • contiguous, important and valuable, and which had been neglected so, long as to be come a just cause of reproach to the gov ernment, Congress, in 1854, took into its serious consideration the justice and policy of organizing it into Territories. But two difficulties were in the way of an organization : one was the question of Indian occupancy—the other that of Afri can slavery. The first was easily adjusted; the second was the subject of long, heated and angry discussion. More than one hundred speeches were delivered in Con gress at that session upon the slavery ques tion. At length the whole country lying west of Missouri, lowa and Minnesota, east of Utah, Oregon and Washington Territories, end north of the 37th and south of the 49th parallels of latitude, was organized into two Territories, and named Kansas and Nebraska. The law organizing these Territories settled the slavery controversy, by provid ing that the people of thew might form their domestic institutions in- their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United states ; and to enabli the peo ple to do so without hindrance of any kind, there was inserted in the act a clause repealing all laws establishing, regulating or prohibiting slaveholding. This settlement greatly pleased one party, and greatly displeased the other.— The defeated anti-slavery party professed to believe that Congress had power and ought to exercise it, to exclude slave prop erty from territory which had been ac quired by the joint efforts and at the common expense of slavehulders and non slaveholders. The victorious democratic party believed that Congress had no such power under the Constitution, and that it would be in equitable to exercise it, if it had ; and, also, that in this particular case, such an exercise of power would be a flagrant violation of the third article of the treaty with France, by which the country was ac quired. Immediately after the passage of the act, people living in Missouri, upon the borders of Kansas, being well acquainted with the country, poured into that territory in large numbers, and appropriated many of the most fertile, bast watered and best timbered tracts. Many of these carried their slaves wi h them. On the other hand, prior to the final passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, but after its passage became evident certain members of Con gress formed a secret association, which ultimately became public, to incite and aid the emigration into Kansas of persons op posed to the existence of slavery, for the express purpose of so carrying out its pro visions as to cause an exclusion of the slave property of the Southern States from the Territory. This secret combination of politicians to perpetrate sectional injustice was promptly followed by public ones ; and moneys were collected in numerous places for the express purpose of aiding an effort to exclude Southern property from Kansas. This sectional and fanatical pur pose was, in practice, gencarlly coupled with some one or more schemes of money making of a highly speculative character. This effort very naturally provoked counter efforts, and violent controversies between the assailants and the assailed followed. The creators of strife, as often is the case, were worsted. Of the voters on tha occasion this may be said : Many were bad men. The scenes were, if possible, as dis graceful as those which have been such a scandalous reproach to the large cities of the Atlantic and Pacific States in violently contested elections. Immediately after the very first election, many of the voters belonging to each of the contending parties, and among them the defeated candidate for delegate to Congress, left the Territory, never to return. Few of the emigrants from the various States other than those from the adjacent State of Mis souri, who alone had easy and early facilities for making themselves comforta ble, passed the first winter in Kansas„ and many of the settlers in Kansas from Mis souri passed the winter out of the Territory. But with the spring emigrants the distur bances returned to Kansas. During the whole of the second year (185 b) it is be lieved the majority of the actual settlers in Kansas were emigrants from the adjoining State. taut as the mass of the emigrants sent out to Kansas under the inspiration of The abolitionists were poorly fitted for labor in unbroken fields, and had to draw largely upon the aid of ab.ent and fanati cal friends for support, and as both the supported and the supporters were accus tomed to wrangling and disputation, the Territory was quickly filled with.strife.— And as local contention and violence in creased, so did the heat and the contribu tions of the remote supporters, until the turmoil in Kansas on one side matured into open defiance of all the laws of the Territory. The mere handful of emigrants were ostentatiously furnished, even by re ligious men, amid prayers and hymns, with destructive weapons, and encouraged to set up an independent government. This was only not put into actual operation,prob ably, but for the firmness of the govern ment officers, backed by the troops of the United States. For nearly three years these turbulent spirits, thus encouraged by the restless and fanatical elsewhere, have kept the Territory in a state of an archy and disorder ; They have uniformly disregarded the laws, so far as it has been possible for them to do so. When elec- " THAT COUNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS WHERE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD."-BUCHANAN LANCASTER CITY, PA . % TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1858. Lions were held, insttad of peacefully par r ticipating in them, they disturbed and an noyed the voters in every conceistable way, and ended in holding elections upon days and in a manner unauthorized by law, and expressly to contravene the law. When, at last, to end, if possible, these disorders and strifes, the Legislature made provision for a vote of the people upon the question whether a Sate govern ment should be formed by the making and adopting of a Constitution, these:organized disturbers combined to prevent a full and fair vote. So, likewise, when the Conven tion had been ordered by a regular vote of • the people to be called, these aimed mis chief makers threw every obstacle in the way of a full registration of the settlers, legally entitled to vote for members of the Convention ; and then, when these violent, illegal and bloody efforts bad bebn partial ly successful, they filled the copntry with , their complaints that the registration, which they had resisted with arms, had not been full and fair : and as the regist!ration was not full and complete, they wished the people of the United States to infer that the election of the members of the Conven tion was neither legal nor fair. ' The peo ple having, by direct vote, ordered the calling of a convention to form' a Consti tution, the abolition agitators and distur hers refused to vote at the election of members of said Convention, and then after an obstinate refusal raised , an outcry that the Convention was unjustly constitu ted, inasmuch as they were not represented therein. After the formation of a Consti tution, they cried out against the Consti tution, upon the ground that they had not been allowed to vote for its ratification, though th y knew, before the election of the Convention, that the Convention had been clothed with full authority to make a Constitution ; they well knew that the bill providing for the election of members of the Convention had been vetoed by the Governor upon the express ground that it enabled the Convention to make a Constitu- tion, and that it had been made a law after a full consideration of such veto. They knew that the Governor and the officers of the Territory, iu various ways, had made grew exertions to induce them to go to the polls likeghonest law-abiding citizens, and vote for men who would respect their wishes, and that they had refused to heed these solicitations. They also knew that the CoOtention had not only afforded an opportunity for the good citizens who had registered them selves as voters according to law, to decide whether slavery should or should not be established iu Kansas as a legal:institution, but had also allowed even thosb bad men - who had disobeyed tine laws, and who had combined to prevent a full registration, to vote with the registered voters upon this vital question, and they also knew that they refused to vote, even under such cir cumstances, upon this proposition. The Convention was called by a direct vote of the people in direct pursuance of law ; the people, in pursuance of law, sub sequently elected a Convention to make a Constitution ; and, in str ct pursuance of all the forms observed by such Convention, that Convention, thus legally elected, did make a Constitution. That Constitution, thus legally created, is, if recognized by Congress, the supreme law of Kansas, and can only be changed by the people of KAI , sas,who through their legal representatives, have thus formally created it. , No Legis lature of Kansas, after the people had, in. pursuance of all the forms of law, called and elected a Constitutional 'Convention to make a Constitution, could. legally in terfere with it, either to increase or lessen its powers. The Convention, being the direct official representatives of the sover eignty of the people, could no more be restricted in its legitimate action by a Legislature, than could the people them selves be restricted had they been assem bled, in person, in one great mass meeting, to make a Constitution for their own gov ernment. Ilence the work of that Conven tion was final and complete, and must so remain, in all its parts, until changed by the people that called and elected the Con vention that made it. The vote on the single clause submitted on tne 21st of De cember, 1857, was a final vote ; the Con vention itself, if re-assembled, could neither change the Constitution nor order a second vote. The power with which it was entrusted by the people is exhausted. Its members are now only private citizens, and, like other private citizens, must obey each and every requirement of the Consti ution which they severally helped to cre ate Far less can a thereto unauthorized Executive„ Judiciary and Legislature, change, alter, modify or nullify the Con stitution made by the people through their selected representatives—representatives elected by the people themselves, and clothed with special, direct :and positive authority for that, and no other purpose. Good citizens and representatives of good citizens, cannot consistently 'do any thing expressly to uphold violators of law and known distubers of the public peace. It is alike impolitic and unjust to grant the turbulent demands of the disorderly, be they few or many ; it is wrung to aid them to overturn a Constitution ,made by the law-abiding supporters of the government and laws of Kansas ; the more especially when, the habitual disturbers would not have'any cause of complaint of any kind, as they themselves loudly assert, if they had listened to the earnest counsels of the President of their country, and the Gover nor of their Territory, and etercised their right and honestly performed their duty, by voting upon either of these occ ,sious : 1, when the vote was taken upon calling a Convention ; 2, when the Convention was elected : 3, when the question was sub mitted whether the slavery clause should or should not be retained in the Constitu tion. If the Abolitionists . I::cre in a ma jority, as they so loudly boast, and would not vote against the establishment of sla very in Kansas, but allowed those who would vote to establish it, they have no just cause of complaint. If they were in a minority, as there is reason to believe, they have no just cause of com plaint, for the majority of the people vot ing, in accordance with the theories of all, ought to rule. Notwithstanding the noisy and incessant claims of the abolitionists to be con idered a majority of the people of Kansas, the truth of these claims remains to be shown. Having been abundantly supplied with superior arms, such as Sharpe's rifles, Colt's revolvers and Bowie knives, and been trained for two or three years to their use, and to move in concert and in masses, the idle and the lawless men egnt into Kansas by the fanatios of New England have become dangerous and formidable. But their numbers have been, it is believed, greatly exaggerated their power consists in their superior organiza tion and arms, and in their being supported in idleness. When called upon to vote for or against the, calling of a Convention to form a Constitution, these mercenaries or political priests did not venture to measure strength at the polls with the Democratic party of Kansas, but allowed the election to go by Lefault. So, again, when the members of the Convention were elected, the abolitionists shrunk from the contest, So, also, when the question came up whether there should or should not be a clause retained in the Constitution allowing slavery to be estab lished irMansas, they again shrunk from the contest, conscious of their weakness, or from sinister political design. It is pos sible there may be a majority of the citi zens of Kansas from the non-slaveholding States, but all are not abolitionist or fanat ics on the slave question. Why this con tinued absence from' the polls, if they had the real strength with which to take pos session of the Legislature, and thus peace fully end alll difficulties by having every thing in their " own way 3" At the late election of `Late officers, they exerted their strength iu union with certain favoring elements, and so close was the contest, even when thus aided, that the result is as yet unknown. The only election they ever carried was that which was held last fall, and their success is readily acccounted for without resorting to the supposition that the Aboli tionists compose a majority, or even a fourth, of the voters of Kansas. . . As to their vote upon the Constitution, given upon the fourth of January la,t, two weeks after the day appointed by the only competent authority to appoint a day, little need be said, for it was utterly irregular, and was thrown upon a day other than the legal one, for the purpose of casting con tempt upon the government. Votes cast without lawful authority upon a question decided, and`with a purpose to unfavorably affect what is lawful, orderly and right, are entitled to no consideration at the hands of those who do not claim to favor lawless ness and anarchy. That IlleEl who habituallyset all law at de fiance, and who consider all restraint upon their wishes tyranny, should report that they have cast ten thousand votes against a Constitution, when, upon the same day, and at the same places, they were able to rally in favor of their candidates for office Tint so many voters by three or four thou sand, will surprise no one and intim:nue no one. As good citizens, it was their duty to have voted on the lawful election day ; as turbulent persons, they chose to vote two weeks after ; hence, had they number ed millions, their numbers would not con ceal or palliate, far less justify, their open disregard and contempt of law. Some consider the submission of a Con stitutiod to a vote of the people for ratifi cation as necessary to its validity. In this opiaiou toe committee do not concur. The people may assemble, as in ancient days, in mass meeting, and make a Constitution ; they way elect representatives to wake one for them ; or they may elect represen tatives to draft one to be submitted to them for approval or rejection. The last meth od is most approved of during the past few years, though formerly the second method was very generally resorted to. The calling of the Constitutional Con vention of Kansas is generally conceded to have been strictly legal The election of its members is also admitted to have been legal. It is not logical to infer that a Convention legally called, legally elected, and clothed with authority to make a Con stitution, can no more be interfered with by Governor, Judge or Legislator, either to increase or diminish its powers, or to alter, modify or nullify its acts, than the people could be interfered with had they assembled en masse instead of by represen tatives? The Legislature of a State may not alter or annul the Constitution thereof unless thereto especially authorized by the people No election of officers under a Constitu tion ; no vote on the adoption of a Constit ution, held on a day prior, or on a day subsequent, to the day fixed by the lawfully constituted authorities ; is considered valid in any State, or in any Territory, or in any city, county, or town, in the United States, no matter how few or how many persons may engage in the lawless proceeding. No man can be chosen President, or Governor, or Mayor, or Justice of the Peace, but on the day appointed by law ; and, except by lawless and shameless desperadoes in Kan- sas, no where in the United States has this doctrine'been practically controverted. If the monstrous practices of the bold bad men of Kansas, now an exception, are to be erected into a rule, how long will it be ere sonic audacious sectional faction will find a pretence for holding a Presidential elec tion on a day other than that appointed by law And when elections are held without any. law by factionists, and on a day subsequent to the day appointed by law, their candidates will always have most votes ; the legal candidates will by them be pronounced the "minority candidates," and the irregular and illegal ones will be called the 4c majority candidates." Then will follow strife, bloodshed, and civil war. Rights, it must ever be borne in mind can be best and most surely upheld by strict adherance to law ; outrages and crimes are easiest committed and best protected in the midst of civil commotion. There is no real and true safety to our liberties and instit— utions but in a strict adherence to the spirit and the letter of our Constitutions and laws ; and there is no danger to our peace and our Union that we cannot easily escape if we will conscientiously adhere to them. Who ever heard of a Legislature other than that of Kansas, which had the presumption to appoint a day, open the polls and request the people to vote for or against a Constitution which bad been finally adopted by the people two weeks before, and which nobody could change but the people, and they only by a formal action to that direct end'? The action on the Constitution on the 21st December, 1857, was final action, and that instrument was on that day a completed one ; it can be changed, as all State Constitutions can be ; but, until formally and lawfully changed, it is vallid ; and its turbulent opponents will find that the validity of that funda mental law cannot be affected by a town meeting harangue, or by an irregular vote ordered by a rash body of beaten partizans. Many generous persons who are quite indisposed to countenance the violence and contumacy of the abolitionists sent into Kansas for the purpose of excluding there from all property not pleasing to them and their abettors, urge that something might be done to lessen the hardships that will fall upon them in the event of the admis sion of Kansas into the Union with the Constitution made at 'Lecompton ; that, although it is true that the abolitionists violently opposed registration; would not vote at elections ; held sham elections on days subsequent to those appointed by law, and even refused to vote against the estab lishment of slavery at a time when they professed to believe their doing so would hive excluded it, and thus have peacefully settled the question to their own satisfac tion, yet they consider it would be too severe to compel such contumacious citizens even though it is their owu fault, to live under a Constitution which, however griev ous its provisions may prove to be, they cannot change, without resorting to revolu tion until the year 1864. To such, without resorting to the ready answer that Congress has no power to modify or alter a State Constitution, and has expressly stipulated that the people of Kansas shall be permitted to form their the citizens of the State have voted for a Conventio 1, the Legislature shall at its next own institutions, subject only to the Con stitution of the United States, two replies may be given. The first one is this :—The clause complained of in the Lecomptou Con stitution, in this connection, is in these ' words :-- Sac. 14. After the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, whenever the Legislature shall think it necessary to amend, alter or change this Constitution, they shall recommend to the electors at the next general election, two-thirds of the members of each House concurring to vote for or against calling a Convention, and if it shall appear that a majority of all regular session call a Convention, to con sist of as many members as there may be in the house of Representatives at the time, to be chosen in the same wanner, at the same places, and by the same electors that choose the representatives; said dele gates so elected shall meet within three months after said election, for the purpose of revising, amending or chan g ing the Con stitution, but no alteration shall be made to effect the rights of property in the ownership of slaves. That this provision is not objectionable to the abolitionists, in fact, and is now urged by them and their friends only for popular effect, is proved by the overwhel ' ming fact that the abolitionists of Kansas inserted in their c , Topeka Constitution" the following wore objectionable provision : AMENDMENTS TO TOE CONSTITFTION— SEC 1. All propositions for amendments to the Constitution shall be made by the General Assitubly. SEC 2. A concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected to each house shall be necessary, after which such proposed amendments shall be entered upon the journals with the yeas and nays ; and the Secretary of State shall cause the same to be published in at least one newspaper in each county in the State where a news paper is published, for at least six months preceding the next-election for Senators and Representatives, when such proposed amendment shall be again referred to the Legislature elect next succeeding said publication. If passed by the second Leg islature by a majority of two-thirds of the members elected to each House, such ameudmelt shall be republished, as afore said, for at least six months prior to the next general election, at which election such proposed amendments shall be sub mitted to the people for their approval or rejection, and if the majority of the elec tors voting at such election shall adopt such amendments, the same shall become a part of the Constitution. SEC. 3. When more than one amend ment is submitted at the same time, they shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote upon each amendment separately. SEC. 4. No convention for the formation of a new Constitution shall be called, and no amendment to the Constitution shall be, by the general assembly, made before the year 1865, nor more than once in five years thereafter. The second reply is this :—Suppose the grievance real, and that it ought to be redressed, it is unnecessary for Congress to unlawfully interfere for that purpose, inasmuch is the Lecompton Convention has provided a full, lawful and perfect remedy for every conceivable grievance, and placed that remedy in the unrestricted hands of the majority of toe people, by inserting in the Constitution of Kansas the following distinct and unequivocal recog nition of power, viz:— All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are found ed on their authority, and instituted for their benefit, and therefore they have at ail times an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish the r form of government in such manner as they may think proper. The abolitionists of Kansas have thus far sought power by methods unknown to the law and by violence, and not through the peaceful agency of the ballot-box.— Claiming to have a majority of the voters of the Territory, and therefore able to elect Legislatures and Conventions, they ask Congress to wrongfully do for them what they may, at legal times and legal places, rightfully do for themselves : tha , is, change or abolish their Constitution.— And in case Congress refuses to comply with their unconstitutional demands, they threaten to afflict the country with an at tempt at bloodshed and revolution. Unless Congress will do for them what they assert they are numerous enough to do for them selves, but which they wilfully refuse to do, they threaten to plunge the country into civil war. This conduct is so exceed ingly unreasonable as to force the convic tion upon the mind that they are conscious of being in a hopeless minority, and only expect 'to compass their unwarrantable ends by extorting them from the general love of -peace and quiet. If your committee are not greatly mistaken, these reckless men misjudge the American people, and will be required to seek peaceful methods for the redress of all their grievances, whether they be real or imaginary. The committee do not approve the Ordi nance accompanying the Constitution, and report against its allowance ; but they do not regard it as any part of the Constitu tion, nor will its approval or disapproval by Congress affect the validity of that Con stitution, if the State 'be admitted into the Union as recommended. In conclusion, this committee is of opinion that when a Constitution of a newly formed State, created out of our own territory, is presented to Congress for admission into the Union, it is no part of the duty or privilege of Congress either to approve or disapprove the Constitution itself and its various provisions, or any of them, but simply to see whether it be the legal Constitution of the new State, wheth er it be republican in form, whether the boundaries proposed be admissible, and whether the number of inhabitants be suf ficient to jastify independent State organi zation. Believing that the paper presented is the legal Constitution of Kansas, that it is republican in its form, that the boundaries proposed by it are admissible, and conced ing the sufficiency of the population, the committee recommend the admission of Kansas into the Union upon the Constitu tion presented, and report a bill accord ingly. A Bill for the Admission of Senses. The following is the bill reported to the Senate, by Mr. Green, from the Committee on Territories, for the admission of Kansas into the Union as a State : ./1 Bill for the ✓admission of the State of Kansas into the Union, presented in the Senate by Air. Green, of Missouri, from the Committee on Territories, Feb nary 17, 1858. WHEREAS, The people of the Territory of Kansas by their representatives in Con vention assembled at Lecompton, in said Territory, on Monday the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and, fifty-seven, having the right of admis sion into the Union as one of the United States of America, consistent with the Federal Constitution, in virtue of the treaty of cession by Francaof the province of Louisiana, made and concluded on the 30th of April, 1803, and in accordance with the act of Congress approved on the 30th May, A. D., 1854, entitled "An act to organize the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska," did form for themselves a Con stitution and State government, republican in form ; and the said convention has, in their name and behalf, asked the Congress of the United States to admit the Terri tory into the Union as a State, on an equal footing with the other States: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Snecrica, in Congress assembled, That the State of Kansas shall be, and is hereby declared to be, one of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever; and the said State shall consist of all the territory within the following boundaries, to wit : Beginning at a point on the western boun dary of the State of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude crosses the same ; thence west on said parallel to the eastern boundary of New Mexico ; thence north on said boundary to latitude thirty-eight ; thence following said boun dary westward to the eastern boundary of the Territory of Utah, on the summit of the Rocky Mountains ; thence northward on said summit to the fortieth parallel of latitude ; thence east on said parallel to the western boundary of the State of Mis souri ; thence south with the western boun dary of said State to the place of begin ning : Provided, Thttt nothing herein con tained respecting the boundary of said State shall be construed to impair the right of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Territory, so long as such right shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with such Indian tribes, is not without the consent of said tribe to be in cluded within the territorial limits or juris diction of any State or Territory; but all such territory shall be excepted out of the boundaries, and constitute no part of the State of Kansas, until said tribe shall sig nify their assent to the President of the United States to be included within said State, or to affect the authority of the Government of the United States to make any regulations respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to make if! this act had been passed. SE(. 0. .Ind be it further enacted, That the State of Kansas is admitted into the Union upon the express condition that said State shall never interfere with the pri mary disposal of the public lands, or with any regulations which Congress may find necessary for securing the title in said lands to the bona fide purchasers and grantees thereof, or impose or levy any tax, assessment, or imposition of any de scription whatever upon them, or other property of the United States, within the limits of said State ; and nothing in this act shall be construed as an assent by Congress to all or to any of the proposi tions or claims contained in the ordinance of the said Constitution of the people of Kansas, nor to deprive the said State of Kansas of the same grants which were contained in the act of Congress, entitled "An Act to authorize the people of the Territory of Minnesota to form a Consti tution and State government, preparatory to admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original States," approved February 06, 1857. SEC. 3. Seed be it further enacted, That until the next general census shall be taken, and an apportionment of represen tation made, the State of Kansas shall be entitled to one representative in the House of Representatives of the United States. CARDS. REMOVA L.--WILLIAM S. ADIWEG, Att9ro.y at Lau, has removed hie o.lliee from hie Li. or place into South Duke street. nearly "pporeito the Trinity Lutheran Church. ape S tf 12 lAIIItiEL H. REYNOLDS, Al torney at Law. Office. No. 14 North Duke street, opposite the C-nrt 'Tomo, may t tf 18 RGEON W ELCIiENS ce, G IL ikt SU i ngx, second tloor. North Emit corner of North QM.I-11 nod Orange MEMIE=:! W AT T. McP HAL, I Tolt NEY AT LAW, 1y 11 STRASBURG, Ltinca,ter Cu., Pa ICEWTON LIGHTNER, ATTORNEY . 1 1 AT LAW, has removed his Office to North Duke street, to the room recently occupied by Mu. I. E. Mester. EMI= LDUS J. NEFF, Attorney at Law.-- _A. Office with B. A. Sian:tier, EK., south-west corner of Centre Square, Lancaster. may 15, '55 ly 17 EMOVAL.--WILLIAM B. FORDNEY, R Attorney at Llw, has removed his cake from North Queen street to the building in the southeast corner of Centre Square, formerly known as Hubley's folel, Lancaster, aprll 10 TESSE LAND'S, Attorney - at Lavv.--Of ri nee one door east of Lechler's Hotel, East King street, Lancaster, Pa. ll*, All kinds of Scrivening—such as writing Wills, , Deeds, Mortgages, Accounts, Ic., will be attended to with correctness and despatch. may 15, '65 tf-17 DR. JOHN M'CALLA, DE NTlST,—.llllllcaii a No. 4 East King street, Lancaster, P.l. eprili 11 13 1) siclan, T. BAKER, to Dr. ' 3l ll c(7l7s l t ce er °P"lll° Office 19 E. Orange st., nearly opposite the Pint Gets man Reformed Church, Lancaster, April 17 TAMES BLACK, Attorney at Law.--Of tl :ice In Fast King sir-et, two doors east of Lechler's Hotel. Lancaster. Pa. 4161 - All business eonueetell with Ws profession , and all kinds of writing, such /LA preparing Deeds, Mortgages, Wills. Stating Accounts, to., promptly attended to. may 15. JOHN F. BRINTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, PHILADELPHIA, PA., Has removed his office to his residence, No. 249. South 6t12 Street, above Spruce. Refers by permission nor 94 1, 4,5 LEXANDER HARRIS, Attorney at 1 - 1 LAW. Othce South Queen St., West side, near Vine St. REFERENCES Governor James Pollock, Liarrisburß. Au& ew G. Curtin, do. Hun Joooph Casey, do. Andrew Parker, Mlfflintown. lion. James M. Sellers, do. A. K. McClure, Esq., Chambersburg. spr i ly 12 DETER D. MYERS, REAL ESTATE AGENT will attend to the Rentin4 of !louses, Collecting 11011811 and tirnund Rents, &e. Agoneies untruatod to his care will he thankfully received, and carefully attended to.— Sati,l.tetory reference given. 01lice N. E. corner of SEVENTH 2111 d SANt , WM streets, Second Floor, No. 10. fell 17 ly b COPPERWARE MANUFACTORY SANIIIEL DILLEIt lt,ori, hi: thanks f i the liberal patronage heretofore hest , send 11p..ri him. and respectfully informs his cus t•.mers and the public generally, that he still continues at the old stand. in West King street, nearly opposite Fulton and is prepared to manufacture to order COPPER WARE, in all its various branches, and on the most reasonable b-rms. Hu invites his country friends especially to give him a call, as he is confident of being able to please. Ile also keeps constantly on hand, for hire, HORSES, CARE! Ali ES, IJA ROUCII ES, &r., &e., all In excellent order, and furnished at the lowest rates. ilive him ti call when you need anything of the laud, and he will suit you to a nicety. SANDI SANDI—Five Hundred Loads of Sand ou hand, which will he delivered to any part of the city. nurses and Carts to be had at all LIMO, at tho Livery Stable of SAMUEL DILLER, West King st., Lancaster. lONIGMACHER & BAUMAN, TAN -1 tiers and Curriers Store, back of Robt. Moderwell's ColllMit.i.ll Warehouse. fronting on the Railroad and North Prime street.. Cheap for Gash or approved credit.— Constantly on hand a full assortment of all kinds Saddler's and Shoemaker's Leather, of superior quality, Including •• Boozer's celebrated Sole Leather," also, Leather Bands, well streteheil, suitable for all kinds of machinery, of any length and width required, made of a superior quality of Leather, Furnace Bellows, Baud and Lacing Leather, Gar den [lose, Tanner's oil, Currier's Tools, Moroccos, Shoe Findings. ,kc. All kinds old Leather bought in the rotigh; highest pi ices given for hides and Skins in cask; orders will be prompt ly attended to. lob 5 ly IVOTICE TO TRAVELERS.-- PI From and alter MONDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1551, the Christiana and Clement Level Stage Line, will leave Christiana Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays, at 1 P. M.. via Coopers ville. Greet. Tree, PAYSOII . II Store, Quarry 7 i sills, Spring Grove, Meehanics' Grove, to Chesnut Level; returnin, will leave the Level at 6 o'clock, A. M., on Monda)-. Wednesdays and Fridays, and return the same route t. C:11 ristimM. The slot, arrangement will afford persous nu opportun ity of ts..vriillr in ettluw of two dvito lines of cars to NLAND INSURANCE AND DEPOSIT IC.np/tuy.-0111t.t.. corner oI Centro NI/ale and South Queen st., Lancaster, l's. Capital $125,000 Chart, Ferp.tual. Insure against Loss by Fire, and re- Cei re money on Deposit, as horetutOre, paying 5 per cent. uu Deposits mad,• for SO days or longer. RUDOLPH F. ItAUCH, Secretary and Troasurer. i)A.TENT !MOT YPES.--The sub— xcribers h tying; ptrteha•ed the exclusive right of Lan aster city, are t-oultled to offer to the public a now style of Idt:terve. tar extettlinc. beauty and durability, any ever botore matte. These pictures or tad reversed, as dacuerree typvsareand teat Ito teenin any light. They also possess the rare property of being IMPERISHABLE; being hermetically sealed led ween slave plaice, which is secured by :ratters l'atent, in the United States, (treat Britain and France, and practised in Lancaster city by T. 1' If. C UMM LNG& only, over r‘preeher 'i ltro.'s New ,'tore, North Queen st., Lancaster. The term by which these Pictures are ,j,..,i gu terii is derived from the (keel, word Ambrotos. sig nifying indestructibility, permanency, fir. The Picture Is taken spoil plate glass. to which another plate of corres ponding size Is secured with an indestructible cement, by by which the picture will retain Its original brilliancy lot ages: it will not eorrocle by arida, nor be injured by water or climate. It Is bold iu its effect, beautiful in tone, surpasses any thing In the gradations of light and ahade, and may be seen in any light. The public are cautioned against dation, Mail.' on single plat,. ' , J . glass, with the Slack varnish iu Immediate contact with the Picture.— loo.h are out permanent. as the tarn lob must crack and destroy the Picture. AM i:ltuT PE SlEff ESCOPES JI VAT 11F.; SEEN, he n1.1),(146..1—1 he relief' being fully me perfect as life. Citizeos itranger, are Invited to .11 at the Ambrce type , ;all-ry of :he undrsittoed, and examine specimens '•9imu they procure Pictures elsewhere, us they are ms-ored polio• attention. '1 • . CU3INIINOS it CO. 1 r F. INGI, il6 North The teeuth street, Philadelphia, Ps., th ree doors above Cherry Street, respectfully lull - aims the •itizens of Lunemiter county and elsewhere, that all kinds of Silks, Crepes, Merino., Ac., are dyed In the most fashionable and permanent eolors. 'Ladies' cashmere and crape shawls, cloaks, Ac., cleansed and pressed equal to, new ; Silk dresses watered In superior style. Gentlemen's apparel scoured hnfi dyed In superior style; In short, Dye ink in all its various branches done at short notice, and on the lowest terms. Also, Carpets Cleansed. A call 16 earnestly solicited. as it I , very convenient for those who sh old want anythlnit in the above line Phila. mar 17 1)015 I)ENNSYLVANIA PATENT AGENCY. 1 J. FRANISLIN BEIGAItT, or Lancaster city, obtain,'" Leiters Patent irom the U. latent Office, on the most rein-on:tide twrium. Drawings of ell kinds of Machinery, A ren iteciu re, or Survey, correctly exeruted by him. Me wl, Deed•. Bona and other lost'unients of writing. ottire— \e. Frilion Buildings, Prince street. .1p r tf 14 sCIIAEFFER AND SON, 1J No I and 1. corner of East King and Contra :11:4,11.. Lulea-ter, keep comd.antly on heed a s.tort taunt of SADDLERY for wile. whole 5a1,1,114 , . 1311, 04,11,4; of Patent Steel Spring aldl every olh,'r my le, single nod dmble C ltltlAtiE HAI:NESS, Steel Spring, Sole Lather TituNliS. Carridue VV 111 Volvot, Brussel CAR PI-A' lIAGS. and Lathes SATCII.V.I,LS cud Summer MORSE C. ,v ERS. %Vv would call the att.:oho° of Fanners and S.lari•Sta . pOrSlO 0110 assortment of superior Leather WWI PIFI, and also , our variety of ELY AMTS Trent different inanu lactur,s. N. B.—At th. State Agricultural Fair held in Lancaster, °Huber PICESI L: NIS were awarded to thorn fur Sad, dies and 'Brunk.. and thy, ❑aruescompared favorably with others. [nag li ti 30 . 1 E. S. /c eON. xTEI,V FALL AND WINTER IRILLINE. G.,c)DS.—Tho sul..cribter received Gix new FALL AND WINTER (100DS, of the littekl Ft:, les, which he is selling very low at whole 0111, r , tui 1, 0, 40 to suit ill Mitt/1110M 111 stock can Siiks. Satbm. )Lades, Velvets, Crapes, Lawns, Tarl• too. C.ipinetA ; Silk, &LLITI and Velvet Ribbons; Llama, rdirinir=, 131nn,le , quint omit. Plusher, Straw Goods of all tinilt Gimp, Straw Cord, French Blood, French and Dr tnesti.• Hit,itits tit the Hest styles; a large assort, :mutt reatp,unatle BONNETS, trimmed in the latest Part , Frames, Chrwille. Be n• lert and ltillbot. Wires. and a groat many articlen unneces, nary 0. nnnt it tart, eier. thing that ilbedeLl In that lino 01 Invites his friends and elastomers to call before purchaFin4 elsewhtue, on he is tottiatied that be can exhibit a b e tter and .heaper stock of maidn than ever ben, brought to this city. cad and examine for your selves. N. 13. 1); (1, )01)1—A good nosortment on hnnd, which .elk L. BAUM, TA R. CREAGER, Baltimore, Md., Is the I_l sok Adent for Dr. Winder's .'elebrated Matrimoolal '•dories," 3 Books; No. 1, "A Book for Young Men, designed to prepare therm Sr , }eon& Orodety ;" No. 2: "Errors in Courtship:' :No 3, .' lt..productiro Control." Either of which will hr twilled to order, post-paid, upon receipt of :5 •teats. jan 12 3m 52 milE GREAT FEMALE PILL.--Dr. J. 1 It CRWAGER is the General Agent wholesale and retail Ilm Dr. Wheating's celebrated Female Pills. These Pills are truly valuable for Ladies. for they will restore the .41enalily Courses where they may stop from any count what cr,r. Tbrl never have failed In any case where the direc tions nroond the box containing the Pills have been !St rirt I y followed; Indeed, there has no case of failure ever come to our knowledge. Being purely vegetable they are perfectly safe. Mailed to order, postpaid upon receipt of one dollar by .1. F. Creager, Baltimore City, Md. liberal discount to Druggists. Jan 129m62 inu 20 111 PAPER HANGING.---ALLEN GUTH- E, residing In North Queen st., three doors south of Frederick st. Until the Ist of March. be will hang paper at the reduced rate of 12% cents per piece. [dec Bly 47. CATALOGUE OP NEW MUSIC JUBT PUBLISHES) Dy MILLER BEACII4M BALTIMORE, MD. You my I know not why I'm sad,— I ne'er forget my home, Girls are all married but me, When will love cease? Glenrock Waltz Agricultural Schottisch. Embel/bduvl, • Golden Drop Polka, Lancers Quadrilles, with figures, Starch Militaire, par conriaender,.— Victoria (Royale) valae brillante, heduc,. Kathleen Mavourneen. Ford Beyer, AT Music forwarded safely per mall, free of postage, on receipt of marked - price. A liberal discount to Dealer, Teachers and Solatoarlan.. Catalogues forwarded gratuitously toy tr Lir NO. 7 lion. El. 0. LONG. " A. L. IlAtia, " FERMI% 13a1Nrom, TLIADDBM SITZVIAN \o. 62 N. Queen et.
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